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World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
Various
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Wild Huntress
Thomas Mayne Reid
Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man show…
Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
George Alfred Townsend
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…
Doodles, the Sunshine Boy
Emma Dowd
Doodles is a gentle child, who spends his days confined to a chair - but his life is turned round by the arrival of a special new friend, a …
End of Summer
Madison Cawein
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. - S…
Power of the Dog
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 19…
Return of the Mucker
Edgar Rice Burroughs
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…
Second Mrs. Tanqueray
Arthur Wing Pinero
Aubrey Tanqueray marries a woman with a past which he believes will not matter in society. "I know you think me a fool, Cayley—you need…
Lady of the North Star
Ottwell Binns
A mysterious death. A wealthy beautiful young lady. Three men after her heart. Place this mixture in the snow bound northwest and you have t…
Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…
Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott
An historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Tales of My Landlord series, published anonymously in 1819. Based on a true story, it i…
Humorous Readings and Recitations
Leopold Wagner
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…
War Stories for My Grandchildren
John Watson Foster
After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than re…
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II
Albert Bigelow Paine
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) …
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 8: Great Rulers
John Lord
Volume 8 of the Beacon Lights of History focuses on the great rulers of the ages. In this work, Lord discusses Alfred the Great, Queen Eliza…
Moods
Louisa May Alcott
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the wor…
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 4, April 1901
Various
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland
William Wordsworth
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha
Alexandre Dumas
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…
Collection of Ballads
Andrew Lang
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…